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i think you might hvae misunderstood something of the post above: i have no problem with digital music in general--i wonder a bit about using a laptop on stage, however, becaseu i think that everything you might be doing on other instruments/set-ups that the audience does not expect ot hear from the sources gets attributed to the laptop----maybe this will bug me less with time, but at the moment, it is curious.
what i was responding to was the idea of using a drum machine in a metal context--this mostly because there is something important it seems to me in the physicality of the drumming in that context---usually, what impresses me in the metal i listen to is the drumming in any event. so what i meant was to maybe consider using the drums differently in the construction of the mix rather than using a machine to duplicate a live drummer and pretend in this mix that you are not doing it.
as for the question of speed in relation to the "new frontier" of digital production: people have been using mechanical means to generate music that would otherwise be impossible to play for a long time--colin narcarrow's insane piano rolls for example--there is nothing in itself interesting about it, and that you can do it on a laptop does not change anything about the matter.
most of what i do with the piano happens in real time--i never treat the piano pieces ex post--i figure it is more disorienting to hear it without giving a listener the postproduction to think about it through.
the point is obvious: there is nothing about the fact of working in a digital medium that makes anything you produce new or interesting. in this, the medium is like any other instrument--it has skills that you have to develop, ways of hearing that you learn/work out along the way, modes of placing sound--allof which you get to by interacting with the medium. no way around it. chances are that when you are starting out, your stuff will be copies of what you know from other areas....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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